Sunday, March 16, 2008

Conservative Choice: Principle Or Popularity

People pleasers want to be liked.They are chameleonic,all things to all people. They have no principles.In politics they are the ideological free-zone. (Yes, I'm talking about the Tories again!) They worship at the altar of pragmatism.They actually pride themselves in not believing in anything.What they exhibit is a dogmatic uncertainty.An eye to the main chance,power for power's sake.

A far cry from the 80's when Thatcher brought principles back into politics.This was such a painful experience for the Tory grandees and caused them so much pain and conflict that in the end they had to stage a coup to get rid of her. From then on it was back to business as usual.

With Cameron this values free politics has reached its nadir.He is the kind of person who would apologise for his virtues if he had any. A man without qualities,a moral vacuum,a supercillious popinjay he is surely the perfect figurehead for a party that abandoned principles for political expediency, with a gaping void where its soul used to be.

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